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EBMAN ranas, or memeanfcmr, INDIANA.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known thatl, HERMAN Pines, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Michigan City, county ot' Laporte, and

State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements inRefrigerators,

of which the following is a specification,

and which is illustrated'in the accompanyingr drawings, forming apartthereof.

This invention relates to imprmements in refrigerators, being applicableas well to domestic refrigerators as to refrigerator ears, and itsobject is to improve the construction of devices of this character,especially with view to increasing the circulation of air through boththe storage compartment and the 'ompartment for containingl ice or othercooling agent.

The invention consists in a structure such .20 as hereinafter describedand as illustrated in the accompanying drawings. in which- Figure l is atransverse vertical sectional view ofa refrigerator car takenl throughthe storage compartment and looking toward the wall of the icecompartment: Fig. 2 is a detail longitudinal vertical section of the carthrough the ice compartment; Fig. 3 is a detail in perspective of thepartition separating, the two compartments of the car;

Fig. is a sectional view similarto Fig. l, showing a modified form otconstruction; Fig. 5 is a verti al section of a domestic re frigerator'taken through both its. storage and ice compartments; Fig. (5 is avertical section of the same device taken through the storagecompartiment and looking toward the -wall of the ice compartment. aportion of the wall being broken away; ig. 7 is a vertical transversesection of a ear body 40 showing a 'modified form of construction;

. and Fig. 8 'is a detail plan section on the line 8 8 of'Fig. 7.

Referrino' to Figs. 1 and 2, there is shown l fat 10, 10, die sidewalls, at 11 an end wall, at 12 the roof. and at, '13 the floor ot arefrigerator car. An ice lcompartment is designated 14, its chargingdoor is shown at 15, and its ice-supporting'tioor at 1.6. The storagecom artment of the car is designated as 17. he two compartments areseparated by a partition within which are included tlues for promotingand Vstimulating,r the circulation of air. These tlucs lead from thestorage compartment to the ice '.35 compartment, their openings into thelatter nnrnronnmon,

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.beingdower 4than their openings from the former. Preferably, though notnecessarily, these fines are inclined.

lThe partition separating the two compartments of thecar, as illustratedin Figs. 1, 2

tlie builder may suggest; facing plates 21, 25, and inclined plates 26,2, joining the facing plates and-adjacent uprights Openings are providedin both faces oifthe artition, the openings'in the vface toward thestorage 'compartmentof the refrigerator beingr at the upper ends of theinclined plates 26, 27, and those in the. face toward the coolingcompartment being at the lower ends of vSuch plates. As show-n, thisarrangement of 'openings is provided by terminating'the plates .34 ashort distance from the nprights, as 18, from which the plates 26, 2T,incline downwardly, and by terminating the plates 25 a short'distancefrom clined plates rise. Rigidity may be secured by bendingthe plates2-1 to form an angle to fit the corner of the uprights, as 19, asplainly shown at 2S; and for the same reason the plates 24 are bent tocover a side face of the uprights from which they lead, 'as shown at Q9,and are further bent to overlap the front face of' the upright, that isto say, the face adjacent thc storage compartment, as shown at. 80.These plates may be secured to the uprights by means of nails or screws.The inclined platesare as shown at 31, and riveted to the facinr plates."..lhese sid: tianges of the` inclined plates are preferably cut awayopposite the openings in the artition. This construction of thepartition provides iiues leading downwardly from the ystorage to thecooling` compartment and as air 'chilled in the draws the air from thestorage compartment through these fines The circulation is furtherstimulated by the chilling ot' the air as 'it enters the tlues." As the'tempera` refri' erator is somewhat higher adjacent its si e' walls thanremote therefrom, it is desirable to have o citings in the storagecompartment side o the partition adjacent uprights being employed as thejudgment' 0 and 3,comprjses a plurality or" uprights or ireferablyflanged upwardly at their edges,

the uprights, as 1f). from which these incooling compartment tendsto'descend, it 10G ture within the storage compartment of a the sidewalls and to this end, as shown by 11o car.

.the partition. These bars-merel the plete.. viniury by Contact of thecontcntsio'lejia' i Similar cross-bars 33 protect therplates-Q dottedlines in Fig. l, `the artition fines extend downwardly from bot sides ofthe ln Figs. l and 2 there are shown' bars 32 crossing the storagecompartmentjace of serve the purpose of protectinv from damage by theice.` -f r In Fig. a thc bars formim the frexreworn of the partition,instead o eing npriolit-as in Figs. 1,9. and 3. are horizonta'has s ownat 3ft-,and the facing plates 35, 36,.:1re similarly disposed, theopenings from the storage compartment being at the topa of the platesand' the openings into the cooling compament being atthe bot-tomsu o the`plates 36. The inclined plates arceranged asf-in the other form ofconstructomand the manner of attaching the various-'pistestothe'eframing of the partition may be '-snbstantially the seme and neednot, therefore, be shown and described in detail. Thishorizontalarrangement of the framing and facing plates has theadrantafre of providingontinuons openings entirely across the car and.which will receive the va 'ionsst-rata of air moving toward the coolingcompartment without compelling lateral movement.

In refrigerator car construction it is desirable that access may befreely had to theV ice compartment for 'the purpose. of cleain ing, andto that end the partition separating the two compartments maybeopenable.

Such form of lconstruction is illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8, wherein aportion of the partition is shown :is taking the Iorm of a pair of doors54, 55, hinged adiacenti the side walls of the cargas shown at 5G, 57,58, 59,

l and lmeeting at the median line of the car plates and with themconstituting the fines.

The ini-'ention majY be applied to a domestic refrigerator insubstantially the same manner as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, wherein the.side walls of such a device are shown its rear wall at 41 and its doorat. 42. In

such :restructure the partition bet-Ween the' two compartments need notbe strengthened by intermediate nprights or cross-bars. As shown, theframing of the partition comprises a lower sill 4.3, nprights 44, 45,atlthe ecosse rear and front of the refrigerator, and a cross-bar vt6at. thetop of the refrigerator'. A. single facing plate 4:7 is shown asextending from the sill 43 to the cross-bar 4G on the storagecompartment side of the partition, the edges of this plate being spacedapart from the nlnights 44, 45, to provide .peningsfor admission of air;and therc'is n pair of facing plates 48, 49, forming the acc of thepartition directed 'toward Athe Y.cooling compartment., 'these platesextending respectively from the upright 44 and the .upright 45 towardbut. not quite to the vertical median line of the partition. A.plurality of inclined plates 50, 51, as many as mayv be preferred,extend downwardly *from the upright 44, and a plurality of similarinclined plates 52, 53, extend downwardly from the. upright 45, theinner ends of the two sets of plates meeting at the median line of thepartition. These various .plates may be Secured to the framework of thepartition and to each other in a manner similar to that shown in Figs.l, Q and 3, and need l not be shown and described in detail.

I claim as my inventionl. A. refrigerator comprising a walled structureharing a hollow partition with offset openings in its faces and inclinedfines connecting such openings and extending parallel with the surfacesof the partition.

2. In a refrigerator, a partition separating the compartment lorcontaining the cooling agent from the storage compart- .ment,.suchpartition comprising, in combination, studs or bars spaced apart, platesforming the faces of the partition, each plate being spaced apart fromone of a pair Iof studs or bars, such spacing of opposing plates beingout of register, and inclined tine plates fitting between such opposedplates.

3. In ay refrigerator. a partition comprising stads or bars, inclinedplates connecting adjacent stads or bars and extending transverselrofthe partition, and face plates, each 'extending From one stud or bartoward but spaced apart. from an adjacent stud or bar, the face plat-esof one side of the partition engaging the studs or bars at the lowerends of the inclined plates and those of the opposite side of thepartition engaging the studs or bars at; the upper ends of the inclinedplates.

1. ln a refrigerator. in combination, a walled structure. and apartition separating the interior of the structure into a storagechamber and a cooling chamber. and inclined l fines inclosed wit-hin thepartition and cxat 3i', 38, its top at 39, and its bottom at 40,

tendingr parallel with its faces, such fines opening;r at their upperends to the storage chamber and at their lower ends to the .coolingchamber.

5. A refrigerator comprising a storage chamber and an ica-chamber.tnepartition separating 'the two chambers having a door,

Vsuch door 'containing ail` Hines ext-ending pa'rpartments, the openinof each flue to the alle] with the surfaces of the door and openstora'gechamber being igher than its open- 10 ing to both compartments'. ing tothe icc chamber.

G. A. refrigerator comprising a b'toruge l Y HERMAN PRIES chamber and nnice chamber, the partition l separating the two chambers having a door,fitnessesz such door containing :air fines extending par- JNU. W.CORLSON,

allel with its faces and opening to both coin- \V1LL1AM R. R. LUGG.

